Who am I?
My name is Martin Adrian Enghoy. Most people call me Martin, or Marts for short. I am a Computer Engineering Graduate from De La Salle University—Manila. I am ID 118, which makes my freshman year in 2018. I graduated February 2024, about a year after the pandemic has fully eased off.
I was born in Quezon City, Philippines, and now live in the southern part of Metro Manila.
How has my Professional Journey been?
Well, as of May 11, 2024, I am currently working on two (2) freelance projects that both have their uniqueness in function. The first one that I got back in April 2023 is Front-Q. The second one I got back in August 2023 is IECEP Journal. I can't be more thankful enough that I already have some form of work right now as a start, especially as I push further to find my first full-time position.
Front-Q
Front-Q is my first freelance project that I worked on back in April 2023. The purpose of the web app is to be a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that focuses around minimizing the time it takes for the service crew to respond to a customer's request, be it in a hotel, b&b or food establishment.
Given Front-Q's main purpose, its core functions revolve around having a real-time view and management of requests that each table / room sends to the service crew. In the management part of the requests, the service crew is able to exchange messages with the customers at the table / room via a real-time chat window redirected from a request card getting clicked.
The main tech stack that this app uses is the Next.js 13.5 stack that uses the /app router. Mainly in TypeScript, styled using TailwindCSS, also using Shadcn-ui for some of its UI components. Its backend mainly comprises NoSQL with MongoDB as the third-party database and Prisma for modeling the data. The app also used Axios for its API calls, as well as Pusher for its real-time functionality that fits well in refreshing the virtual DOM in React to fully simulate the real-time functionalities.
IECEP Journal
Similar to Front-Q, IECEP Journal was one of my first freelance projects I had the chance to work on while I worked on finishing my degree. The Institution of Electronics Engineering of the Philippines, IECEP for short, is an organization that represents professionals in Electronics Engineering and its allied fields. The main purpose of the web application is to be able to publish research journals that mainly comprise papers that were submitted and reviewed within the website itself. That is and also digitizes the traditional review process of papers that ran through email threads for years.
Likewise, IECEP Journal's tech stack comprises the Next.js 13.5 stack with MongoDB as its backend. Compared to Front-Q that mainly required more real-time functionalities, IECEP Journal's main requirement was its roles within an Editorial Board. From the editorial chief, their secretary, the associate editors, down to the reviewers and authors, each had a different set of data tables and data inputs. All of this along with having an email bot attached to each API success call to confirm each of the website users' actions. I mainly used react-email and Resend to develop this email bot.
The Communities I love and the People I look up to
In my life, I have gone from community to community, listened to people's lives and molded my life according to their advice.
freeCodeCamp
Once I realized the career path I wanted to mainly take, freeCodeCamp is the first community that I found and had fell in love fully.